Motivational Quotes

Communication

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Communication

For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?

Burton, Bruce

Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

Piece, John A.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Hutchins, Robert M.

Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Rosten, Leo

The higher you go, the wider spreads the network of communication that will make or break you. It extends not only to more people below, but to new levels above. And it extends all around, to endless other departments and interests interacting with yours.

Walton, Donald

Use non-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S = Smile O = Open Posture F = Forward Lean T = Touch E = Eye Contact N = Nod.

Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.

Proverb, Italian

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.

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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Rohn, Jim

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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Carnegie, Dale

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Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

Brown, Les

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You people are telling me what you think I want to know.I want to know what is actually happening.

Abrams, Creighton

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The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Robbins, Anthony

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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication.

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Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Teague, Jr., Freeman

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You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, No Shit! or at least, No kidding!

Boardman, Gael

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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!

Lehrer, Tom

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It's vital the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures --in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Frost, Robert

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To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

Geibel

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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Don't hide your strategy under a bushel. Communicate it throughout your company. It's better today to disclose too much than too little.

Ross, Joel E.

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Milton, John

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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Daly, Jeff

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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Carnegie, Dale

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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

Proverb

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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Ade, George

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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

Moliere

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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Dickens, Charles

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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively, but says nothing.

Haskins, Henry S.

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We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Truman, Harry S

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Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.

Stowell, Joseph

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Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Rohn, Jim

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If you cry Forward you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

Chekhov, Anton

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The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Irving, Washington

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Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.